QUICK TAKES - March 12, 1996

Paramount Pictures is teaming with Rusty Pelican restaurants to launch a nationwide chain of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurants, taking their theme from last year’s Academy Award-winning film “Forrest Gump.” The first of 23 planned eateries is slated for opening next month on Cannery Row, near the Monterey Bay Aquarium. . . . Capitol Records will release the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” on May 15. The four-CD boxed set will include all the sessions from the classic recording, including previously unreleased versions of songs. . . . The Moody Blues will appear with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the Bowl on May 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Monday. And a second Rod Stewart Bowl show has been added for April 27 (he also appears April 26) with tickets on sale Sunday. . . . The American Film Institute elevated Deputy Director James Hindman to the newly created position of co-director and chief operating officer. Jean Picker Firstenberg continues as AFI director and CEO. . . . Yoko Ono joins Chris Douridas live today at 11:15 a.m. on “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on KCRW-FM (89.9). . . . Disney announced that, in conjunction with the Kellogg Alliance, it will produce 52 half-hour TV episodes based on 1961’s “101 Dalmatians” for debut on commercial stations nationwide in the fall of 1997. Down, Pongo boy!